[A Hoosier Chronicle by Meredith Nicholson]@TWC D-Link bookA Hoosier Chronicle CHAPTER III 30/47
Do you vote, Mr.Ware ?" "Oh, yes! I'm one of these sentimentalists who tries to vote for the best man.
Naturally no man I ever vote for is elected." "If I voted I should want to see the man first," Mrs.Owen averred.
"I should ask him how much he expected to make out of the job." "You'd be a tartar in politics, Sally," said the admiral.
"The Governor told me the other day that when he hears that you're coming to the State House to talk about the Woman's Reformatory,--or whatever it is you're trustee of,--he crawls under the table.
He says they were going to cut down the Reformatory's appropriation last winter, but that you went to the legislature and gave an example of lobbying that made the tough old railroad campaigners green with envy." "I reckon I did! I told the members of that committee that if they cut that appropriation I'd go into their counties and spend every cent I've got fighting 'em if they ever ran for office again.
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